The trailblazing scientific achievements of British scientist Professor Frances Ashcroft were recognised by UNESCO at an awards ceremony last month.
Modern fingerprinting goes back to Francis Galton, a 19th-century British scientist who, ironically, helped to pioneer the use of statistics.
Prof Dawkins is an outspoken supporter of Charles Darwin, the 19th Century British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution.
In the 17th century British scientist Robert Hooke took a crack at taxonomy, but his clumsy cloud names ("water'd, " "lowring, " "hairy") failed to fly.
Well, for one thing history is on his side: The British scientist's seemingly fanciful assessments of our world have proved right in the past.
She becomes only the second British scientist to receive the prize.
British scientist Professor Frances Ashcroft FRS was named the 2012 European Laureate for her work in advancing our understanding of insulin secretion and of neonatal diabetes.
In 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington as a center for scientific research from funds left at the bequest of British scientist James Smithson.
Packet switching got its name thanks to late British scientist Donald Davies who was creating a network that used this technique at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
The last time a "great geomagnetic storm" unleashed such energy on the earth (thereafter known as a Carrington Event for the British scientist who first detected it) was September 1, 1859.
An alternative, and the one proposed by Sir Walter Bodmer, a British scientist who helped to get the Human Genome Project off the ground, is that all countries would need to have state-run health services.
Nearly a century ago, the British scientist John Tyndall suggested that a fall in the atmospheric carbon dioxide could allow the earth to cool whereas a rise in the carbon dioxide would make it warmer.
Francis Bacon, a British scientist and essayist, was an early victim of the struggle to develop refrigeration technology: he died in 1626 after eating some chicken that he had stuffed with snow as part of an experiment.
These intense solar flares were observed by a British scientist named Richard Carrington back in 1859 who correlated them as the cause of spontaneous combustion of telegraph wires and offices - the relatively tiny telecommunications infrastructure then-available to be disrupted.
On Wednesday, Kroes drafted in more manpower, appointing British computer scientist Neil Barrett to monitor whether Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is complying with the 2004 antitrust decision.
There were myriad breakfast talks between Ballmer and Kroes at the EU headquarters in Brussels to discuss general antitrust issues, and in which Kroes informed Ballmer that she had appointed a British computer scientist to make sure company was complying with the order to publish "interoperability" documentation.
Take, for instance, the online site for the British magazine, New Scientist.
Anna Denny, nutrition scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation, said while it was a "crude" estimate, the study highlighted the growing burden of ill health attributed to food.
Dr Elizabeth Weichselbaum, a nutrition scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation, says meat is an important source of a number of nutrients in our diet, including high quality protein, iron, zinc, selenium, vitamin D and some B vitamins.
"More is not necessarily better...some vitamins and minerals can be toxic in high doses, " particularly the fat-soluble ones which the body stores like Vitamins A, D, E and K, explained Claire Williamson, Nutrition Scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his press secretary Alastair Campbell are the subject of intense criticism in the British press following the death of scientist David Kelly.
The documents started the hunt for spies such as Kim Philby, a British foreign-policy adviser, and Klaus Fuchs, a scientist passing on technical details about the atom bomb to the Soviet Union.
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